Audio Post-production Made Easy and Cheap

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Learning Solutions Conference & Expo 2016 - March 17, 2016

Kevin Lange

Senior Instructional Designer Expedia

Have you ever wished you could wave a magic wand to make your
narrated voice work sound clean and crisp? Well, there is no magic wand, but a digital
audio workstation (DAW) comes close. Broadcast professionals spend hundreds if
not thousands of dollars creating their ideal audio post-production
environment, but with careful planning you won’t need to spend a penny.

In this session, you will discover techniques and technologies
which will enable you to create clean, authoritative, professional-grade audio
for online presentations with a minimal impact on your budget. You will learn
about digital audio techniques such as basic editing, compression, de-essing,
gating, noise removal, and normalization—all using robust digital editing
software you can get for free or as part of a software bundle. You will see how
easy it is to import your professional-sounding audio files directly into your
authoring software, with a small price tag to make your manager smile.

In this session,
you will learn:

How to acquire DAW (digital audio workstation)
software with robust features for little or no cost

How a DAW can be used to minimize or
eliminate background noise (even including the barking dog down the street)

How a DAW can be used to move or
remove sounds at the phrase, word, and phoneme levels

How a DAW can be used to emphasize or
deemphasize frequencies in your voice, resulting in a bold, professional sound

The next steps and resources on
learning, practicing, and perfecting these skills

Audience:Intermediate designers, developers,
and project managers.

Technology
discussed in this session:Adobe Audition and Audacity.

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